(-) Emperor of Rome Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome, Italy.
246 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 March 1767
(+) 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, is born in New Lancaster, Waxhaws District, South Carolina, USA.
193 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 March 1820
(x) Maine becomes the 23rd State in Maine, USA.
106 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 March 1907
(+) Actress Zarah Leander is born in Karlstad, Sweden.
90 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 March 1923
(x) 52-year-old Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin is struck by a third stroke in Moscow, Russia.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 March 1932
(-) Murderer William Laroque is executed by hanging in L’Original, Canada.
81 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 March 1932
(-) Murderer Emmanuel LaVictoire is executed by hanging in L’Original, Canada.
78 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 March 1935
(+) Televangelism pioneer Jimmy Lee Swaggart is born in Ferriday, Louisiana, USA.
76 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 March 1937
(-) Writer Howard Philips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the large intestin at the age of 46 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
(+) Filmmaker David Paul Cronenberg aka Dave Deprave aka The Baron of Blood, is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
56 YEARS AGO - on Friday 15 March 1957
(-) Kidnapper and murderer Burton W. Abbott is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 25 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 March 1975
(-) Billionaire Aristoteles Sokratis Onassis dies of pneumonia at the age of 69 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
38 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 March 1975
(-) Julie Cunningham is abducted and killed by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 26 in Vail, Colorado, USA.
36 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 March 1977
(-) Jon Prestidge is strangled by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, at the age of 20 in Chicago, Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.
32 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 March 1981
(x) 31-year-old IRA member Francis Hughes originally Proinsias O hAodha, starts hungerstriking in Belfast, Maze Prison, Ireland.
29 YEARS AGO - on Thursday 15 March 1984
(-) Colleen Orsborn is abducted and killed by Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer, at the age of 15 in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
27 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 March 1986
(x) Over 100 Die in New World Hotel collapse in Singapore.
26 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 March 1987
(-) Dorothy Blackburn aka Dotsie, is strangled by Arthur Shawcross aka The Monster of the Rivers aka The Genesee River Killer, at the age of 27 in Rochester, Salmon Creek, New York, USA.
25 YEARS AGO - on Tuesday 15 March 1988
(-) Murderer Willie Jasper Darden is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 54 in Starke, Florida, USA.
20 YEARS AGO - on Monday 15 March 1993
(x) 53-year-old Police-chief Mustafa Tabit is sentenced to death in Casablanca, Morocco.
He raped and tortured hundreds of women during his service.
16 YEARS AGO - on Saturday 15 March 1997
(-) Artist Victor Vasarely dies at the age of 90 in Paris, France.
15 YEARS AGO - on Sunday 15 March 1998
(-) Paediatrician Benjamin McLane Spock dies of cancer at the age of 94 in La Jolla, California, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 March 2000
(-) Double murderer Patrick Gene Poland is executed by lethal injection at the age of 50 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 March 2000
(-) Serial Killer Darrell Keith Rich is executed by lethal injection in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.
13 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 March 2000
(-) Murderer Timothy Lane Gribble is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
7 YEARS AGO - on Wednesday 15 March 2006
(-) Double murderer Tommie Collins Hughes is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.
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